Seven Companies That Failed to Innovate and What Happened to Them
Highlights Companies as diverse as Xerox, National Geographic, and Circuit City failed to innovate, and suffered painful costs as a result. While a company can survive failing to innovate, it can cost the firm billions and damage its long-term outlook, [...]
Five Creative Ways – Customer and Employee Suggestion Boxes
Customer and employee suggestion boxes can be incorporated into any innovation campaign. Modern boxes should be digital, privacy-friendly, easy to use, and designed to collect useful data. The suggestion boxes are a classic tool for collecting feedback, yet you can [...]
How the GSA’s 10X Program Advances Government Innovation
Highlights: The General Services Administration (GSA) founded the 10X program in 2017 to internally crowdsource ideas and new approaches. The GSA’s 10X program has been successful due to transparency, accepting failure as part of the process, and a willingness to [...]
How Better Access to Data is Improving Government Innovation
Highlights Government innovation is being increasingly centered around data access, such as big and open linked data (BOLD). The Federal Data Strategy (FDS) is helping government agencies break down silos and use similar methods of organizing data and building data-sharing [...]
How IdeaScale’s Innovation Scaling Feature Makes It Simple to Launch Crowdsourcing Campaigns and Solve Problems
Highlights Innovation strategy requires a plan for scaling innovation. Building scaling processes into your innovation platform, like those created by IdeaScale, makes it easier to move pilot projects and department-scale approaches to a broader scope. Scaling innovation requires clear goals, [...]
How NASA is Crowdsourcing the Search for Life on Mars
Highlights Crowdsourcing is part of NASA’s innovation strategy, drawing on private and public organizations. NASA has launched a crowdsourcing initiative to help process the spectrometry data coming from rovers to find potential evidence of life on Mars. The resulting innovation [...]
Winpak Case Study: Connecting Employees Across Multiple Continents and Languages
Highlights Global packaging company Winpak noticed that its innovation outreach efforts were limited to those who were able to participate at specific times and places. There were also geographic and language barriers that interfered with developing both general and packaging [...]
Prototype and Test Concepts with IdeaScale’s Solution Creation & Development Features
Highlights Innovation strategy needs to have a strong component of team building, as well as a process for developing, launching and reporting on idea prototypes and pilot projects. IdeaScale’s Solution Creation and Development features integrate with the software you already [...]
How Innovation is Transforming the Way We Approach Disabilities
Highlights Innovation to help those with disabilities is needed to overcome policy, attitude, communication, and physical barriers. Many disabilities are invisible, with people laboring under them to live and work. Innovation strategy can create needed equity for people with all [...]
Top Innovation Conferences for 2022
One of the central curiosities of the COVID-19 pandemic is that innovation festivals have had to show some innovation themselves. In 2022, one fascinating theme we’ve noticed is what’s stuck. Virtual conferences in particular seem to be one trend that [...]
